This is hilarious when you think about it. LOL

I am going to do a survey on how many people actually read this food blog by asking you what your favorite street food is. :) Just leave them at the comment section and I’ll do the tabulation and come up with a table for next post.

I think if I live in Japan, I wouldn’t have enough of its yakitori. So that’s 1 for Yakitori! :)

When you say ice cream, you think of flavors like chocolate, strawberry, vanilla, mint…things that are relatively “normal” for a dessert. In Japan, the whole ice cream scene is taken to a whole next level with flavors like Chicken Wing Ice Cream, Octopus Ice cream, Eel ice cream…and even Crab ice cream. How about that for dessert? :P

Check out this page of Japanese Ice Creams for the list of different ice creams you have never thought of before :P

This is my list of Top 10 Ramen Noodles as an experience ramen noodle cook and eater during university days. Not exactly, the epitome of health but I have eaten my fair share to have a list! Woot!

They are not exactly Japanese kinds only. They are from Thailand, Korea, Japan and Hong Kong.

My list of Top 10 Ramen Noodles

1. Shin Ramyun (Hot and Spicy) - Korea

2. Mama’s Tom Yam (Mi Tom) - Thailand

3. Indomie Mi Goreng Rendang - Indonesia, you have to try this one!

4. Pojangmacha Yukejang (Spicy) - Korea

5. Nissin CQYD Bowl ( XO Sauce Seafood) - Japan

6. Nissin Ramen (Beef Flavor) - Japan

7. Indomie Goreng - Indonesia

8. Neoguri Udon (Seafood & Spicy)

9. Mama Kimchi - Thailand

10. Nissin Korean (Spicy Flavor) - Japan

All of these ramen are hot and spicy. I guess it tells you a bit of my taste, i love spicy food.

You can look at an extensive list of ramens on this website called Noodle Son LOL. How aptly named :)

This a very bizarre fast food option. Well, what do you call it as a start? Noodles? Burgers? This innovative fast food is the brain child of Sadaishi Koji with his burger stand in bright red van at the corner of the car park of the Costa Yukuhashi shopping complex in Yukuhashi, Fukuoka Prefecture. Every day, during after work hours you’ll find women stopping by this van and just buying the ever innovative and obviously delicious Kan-nana Noodle Burger.

It looks like a hamburger but instead of a meat patties, you’ll find roasted pork and noodles that have been fried together into a patty so they hold together in the burger bun. They also have a burger will season chicken balls as its filling too.

Personally, I am not too sure about eating a burger with noodle patties because that’s like eating white rice with potatoes…carbs on carbs just doesn’t work for me that well….i am sure it tastes good but the health conscious me is screaming “ARE YOU NUTS?!”. :P I’d go for the chicken ball ones though :) Do leave a comment if any of you have tried this :)

When I first saw this, i thought “I didn’t know the cereals came in drink form too”. Cheerio was a household favorite for a while in my home but the only form i know of is Cheerio the cereal, not Cheerio the drink.

Anyway, the similarities that these two share is uncanny in a way. Cheerios comes in a variety of color and this Japanese drink, Cheerio comes in a multitude of colors as well. The drink comes in multiple flavors, and was introduced in 1963. The drinks used to be sold in glass bottles, similar to those used for Ramune. In recent years, with the proliferation of steel and aluminum cans and PET bottles, Cheerio (grape and orange only) in glass bottles is only available in the Chūbu region south of Tokyo, as well as three vending units in Kanagawa Prefecture.

Has any of you tried Cheerio, the drink before?

Source: Wikipedia

Bōkun Habanero is a Japanese snack food. The name Bōkun Habanero means “Tyrant Habanero”, where habanero is the name of one of the world’s hottest chili peppers.

The snack consists of potato rings, and is extremely spicy by Japanese standards. I don’t know how spicy these chips are but since I am a lover of all things spicy hot, I’m keen on trying it :P

The package features the original tyrant habanero, a chili pepper with a sadistic grin. The bebiita version features his younger sister, and the bebinero version features the original tyrant in his younger days.

Each 55g packet contains 297.3 kilocalories.

Source: Wikipedia

It says on its package: “Hi Technical Taste”….whatever that means. Anyway, this gum is loaded with all the caffiene goodies that will jolt you right up when you need it. It contains, Vitamin B-3, ginseng and oolong tea. Now how about that for a triple shot? The ads for this gum is real funny too with Jean Claude Van Damme hyping it up with his kungfu kicks and moves. The most I saw of a commercial for a gum was two people chewing their teeth off and grinning like nuts.

The flavor for both is intensely minty. Ingredients in Black Black Gum are: sugar, starch syrup, grape sugar, erisuritol, oolong tea extract, gingko extract, chrysanthemum flower extract, gum base, flavorings, coloring agents (cacao, gardenia), caffeine, niacinamide.

Get some of those gums today if you can - I can safely promise that it will not be like any gum you’ve tasted before. Promise.

:P

Source: ThinkGeek

I don’t really know what to make out of this. I got this from this site. All I know is how wasabi tastes like and how chocolate tastes like, individually. But i just can’t quite seem to put the two flavors together. I know that it’s normal to add some chili powder into chocolate cakes because it enhances the flavor but wasabi isn’t like chili…the type of hotness is just totally on a different level.

I just can’t fathom how it’d taste like. And it seems like even American chocolate makers are adding wasabi as a flavor to their confectionary. It must be good, otherwise, they wouldn’t be making it. Look at this American chocolate brand, Vosges Haut’s wasabi, ginger and black sesame seed chocolate bar:-

That must be one HOT chocolate bar….the packaging looks good though. Vosges Haut is a well known maker of exotic chocolates. Check out their site for other flavor while i try to imagine wasabi and chocolate still.

Vosges Haut’s Exotic Candy Bars

Not really “Japanese food”, but still very much news about Japan and food, it is a Japanese man, Takeru Kobayashi, who won the Nathan’s Famous hot-dog eating contest held every July 4th, for the fifth year in a row. He managed to gulp 49 frankfurters in 12 minutes. Unfortunately, he didn’t manage to beat his own world record of 53-1/2 dogs, set last year. Kobayashi is 27, stands 1.67 metres and weighs 65 kg.